and the weather warm. A loud noise, and a 
of flirica. fwn nlarps- and for ... 
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were heard at those two places, and for 
round, on the fall of tliese stones, which exact y jct^ 
ana mauucsuug ou uicn auwoi,.- - . g, 
violent degree of heat. The largest weighca ^ 
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each other, were of a darkish dull colour, ver) 
and manifesting on their surface that they h®^| 
violent degree of he 
and penetrated abou: six incnes iiiio uic 
a circumstance which renders it highly impro*’^ 'j'lii’iLi^ 
violent ucgicc ni iictn. j-nt. ....5.,^. a- j 
and penetrated about six inches inm the ploug* , jgi'lii’* v 
could have existed tliere before the explosion. 
nomeiion has been described by the astronomer 
whose strict enquiries on the spot enabled him f 
truth of the circumstances he relates. 
In the year 1768, three stone.s were in ' 
French Academy of Sciences, which had lahr' i . 
parts of France; one at Luce, in the Maine , .vi', 
Aire, in Artois; and the third in Cotentin. . jncl 0/ 
externally of the same ideiiticfil appearance 
former of them a particular report was drawn m -,.t 
Fougeraiix, Cadet, and Lavoisier. Tins 
that'on the 18 lh of September, 17O8, 
five in the afternoon, there wa.s seen, near U'r ‘ 1 
of Luce, a cloud in winch a sliort exp!o.sio' . 
followed by a hissing noise, but without ic" A' 
same sound wa.s heard by several persons j n‘> ’ 
from Luce; and, on looking up, they pcrcei'^__ • 
[lie'ihr, alid 
the high road. '1 he/ 
body describe a curve 
green turf near ..... ...j,.. - • „ 
ran to the spot, where tlicy found a kind .^jjiiiS 
buried in the earth, extremely hot, and " ° 
7 |lbs. . I 
In the particular instance now to he cite > jjji-a 
traces were left to show the progress of derd*“®je,ia^' j)i^, 
air. During the explosion of a meteorncar t>d 
20 th of August, 1 789, a stone in diameter t 
inches, fell through the loof of a cottage, en iif'J^.jiiL:. 
man and some cattle. Part of this stone . poph (I'J^ 
Grcville Museum, and part in the Museum te* 
On the 24 tliof July, 179O, between nine 
a shower of stones fell near Agen, in 9'',,3 tir'.jif.. 
south-west angle of France. First a lt'®“’“ t fapi ^ 
was seen, traversing the atmosphere wh*'? jgd 
leaving behind it a train of light which 
